doi: 10.1006/geno.1998.5299.
Long uninterrupted CGG repeats within the first exon of the human FMR1 gene are not intrinsically unstable in transgenic mice
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Long uninterrupted CGG repeats within the first exon of the human FMR1 gene are not intrinsically unstable in transgenic mice
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Despite the increasing number of disorders known to result from trinucleotide repeat amplification, the molecular mechanism underlying these dynamic mutations is still unknown. In an attempt to create a mouse model for the CGG repeat instability seen in Fragile X syndrome, we constructed transgenes corresponding to FMR1 premutation alleles. While in humans these alleles would expand to full mutation with almost 100% certainty upon maternal transmission, they remain stable in our transgenic mice. Therefore, the presence of a large number of uninterrupted CGGs is not sufficient to cause instability in mice, even in the context of flanking human FMR1 sequences.
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